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The One You Feed

Jake Ducey

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Jake Ducey about our purpose

When Jake Ducey decided to quit and leave behind a college basketball scholarship and business school at 19, he had no idea that he would slowly become a leading voice for his generation. It was only three years ago that Jake sat in Economics 101, totally discontent with the state of his life, the direction his generation was heading, and the poverty of the world. After nearly dying in a car accident while drunk, he decided to take the last of his savings, drop out of school and travel the world.
It wasn’t until Jake fell off a cliff in Indonesia and his life was saved by locals, that he realized all he was looking for was within him. As a result, he came back and wrote a book about his journey—Into the Wind: My Six-Month Journey Wandering the World for Life’s Purpose—which made the Amazon best-selling list, received acclaim from Jack Canfield and is now being turned into a film script for a major motion picture. He even built an orphanage in Guatemala with part of the proceeds from his book.
If you ask Jake today if he ever thought any of this was possible, he would’ve laughed—but now at 22, he has already written another book, The Purpose Principles: How to Draw More Meaning Into Your Life.


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0:00.0

I believe it's not about the skill you have, it's about the will you have.

0:11.6

Welcome to the One You Feed.

0:13.7

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,

0:18.3

quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

0:23.9

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,

0:29.9

self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,

0:35.7

we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,

0:41.2

our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:47.5

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

0:51.9

how they feed their good wolf.

1:00.5

Hi, it's Elvis Jaran on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran. I'll be bringing you

1:11.1

candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

1:15.2

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love,

1:19.5

success, failure, whatever else comes to mind. But I'll jacked up because after being in this

1:23.9

business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

1:27.9

Now listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app,

1:32.4

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:37.6

Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is Jake Ducey. Jake was a 19-year-old college dropout when

1:43.1

he independently released his first book entitled Into the Wind, about quitting college basketball

1:48.3

to backpack the world. Jake's second book is called The Purpose Principles and is available now.

1:54.0

And before we start the interview, here's a quick message from Eric.

1:57.7

On the show, we often say you can't think your way into right action. You have to act your way

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